This article is very accurate historically. RINOs are frequently disloyal whereas conservatives rarely are. Rockefeller and Scranton were the antecedents of Rove and Castle. (Krauthammer has never been a conservative and was a speech writer for Walter Mondale. I don’t give a rip about his prognostications. He probably penned the “I will raise taxes” speech for Mondale at the 1984 Dem Convention that managed to win Minnesota (by a fraction of 1% and 2000 votes), while losing the other 49 states in the most massive electoral vote landslide in the last 75 years.)
These people are rapidly becoming irrelevant. Palin and the Tea Party are doing to them what Reagan was never able to accomplish with the Establsihment of his day, that is: destroying them root and branch. That is why I stand in awe of her. She is orchestrating a political feat that even the mighty Gipper failed toaccomplish. (That is no knock on him; She is simply building on his legacy, and he no doubt is cheering her on)
It is a sight to see.
A sight to see, indeed.
Mark Levin spent a lot of time yesterday saying virtually the same thing...that real Reaganites would never stab their own party people in the back like Rove did Tuesday night, before O'Donnell had even given her victory speech.
Pat Buchanan has plenty of faults but you're right on his historical accuracy in this piece. He was there.